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When all you read is stuff like the gateway pundit or some amateur playing reporter on twitterx, you get told how terrible things are. But the reality is more like what you are about to read.
www.msnbc.com
Unemployment rate remains below 4% for the 27th consecutive month
Expectations heading into this morning showed projections of about 240,000 new jobs having been added in the United States in April. As it turns out, according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market didn’t manage to do quite that well. CNBC reported:In addition to the top-line data, we also learned that wage growth continued to outpace inflation. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, inched a little higher in new report, from 3.8% to 3.9%, though it’s worth emphasizing that the jobless rate has now been below 4% for 27 consecutive months — a streak unseen in the United States since the 1960s.The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in April while the unemployment rate rose, reversing a trend of robust job growth that had kept the Federal Reserve cautious as it looks for signals on when it can start cutting interest rates. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 on the month, below the 240,000 estimate from the Dow Jones consensus.

Unemployment rate remains below 4% for the 27th consecutive month
Though job growth cooled a bit in April, the jobless rate has now been below 4% for 27 consecutive months — a streak unseen in the U.S. since the 1960s.

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